(snoring)... why would hendy be riding? Where's that south african guy who i forgot his name of?

diggercuz wrote:second post ever after reading the forum for the last few years and one thing i must say, ACF94 is probably the most intelligent poster here, never biased to BMC or Cadel, and never gets worked up over anything.

I always thought that Calzati was Sky's signing of the 'we-need-a-French-guy'-sort to keep the French race organisers happy, so I'll assume he's a safe bet for a Tour spot. Besides that, he's a pretty decent stage hunter, and did take a very impressive stage win in 2006, although that seems ages ago now. I would love to see Chris Froome in the team, though, I have a good feeling about that guy. And what about John-Lee Augustyn? Of the ones mentioned, I'd suppose Serge Pauwels would be the first one out of the door, should this 'un-official' line-up change.

There were quite a few eyebrows knitted, when Alexander Serov and Alexei Markov this season had no contract provision to Katusha.
Now, little by little the can of worms is opened.

Markov would not have taken it too closely with the professional life of cycling, while Serov didn't show up on the first training camp.
He himself says that his passport wasn't in order, so he was unable to cross the border in to Italy and left his bags at home. The team doubted this claim.

The two now are running for the national team of Russia on the piste. Serov recently became Russian winter champion in individual pursuit. Cyclismag